Sebastian Temple

TEMPLE, Sebastian. b. Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, 12 February 1928; d. Tucson, Arizona, 16 December 1997. He was born Johann Sebastian Tempelhoff, the son of a Jewish mother and a German Protestant father. His mother died when he was three-and-a-half, and he was adopted by a Dutch Reformed family. At the age of 16 he wrote a romantic novel, Love for Celia, and two books of poetry. He travelled widely in Africa during the following years, and then moved to Italy. In 1951 he moved to London, where he prepared BBC news broadcasts relating to South Africa. Temple went to the United States in 1958, lived in Washington DC, was a Scientologist for ten years, converted to Catholicism and...